30 May 2010

Well, that was a short trip, complicated by President Obama'sannouncement. Hahahaha!

Ask not whether astronauts can get to an asteroid — ask what the astroidians think of that. Although my publishers there had planned my itinerary, and samples of my latest book were boxed for tastings in every supermarket on the rock, central-government authorities stepped in because of disease fears. As I reported earlier, they quarantined me on Waystation Limbo because they calculated that I would be a "risk"— the Twitter Anna of Asteroid * even though I assured them I am clean. I not only don't tweet, but hardly ever crow.

But their trust in me was shaken by another earthy epidemic that is only now abating: Facebook. They do keep up with our manias, so the problem there is that, though I've never Facebook'd and have always hated its subteen-tackiness, my astroidian friends (and I thought I had a few close friends) think I've only used them, that they are friends of convenience. How do you reassure friends of a very other culture and atmosphere that they really are friends in the pre-Facebook sense? I haven't been able to, so these past weeks have been worse than purgatory in Waystation Limbo. There are many travellers there because Asteroid * has stringent border controls, and Waystation Limbo is both conveniently out of sight and unfortunately, out of mind.

When travellers get bored, they get hungry, and on Waystation Limbo this means dangerous. I hitched a certain shuttle home, though a patch on our beautiful blue ball makes Earth look like a boiled humbug--all that swirling orange and black.

from Obsidian Sky Books

my newest collection, released June 2018

from Infinity Plus

"An awful lot in this book. As with her magnificent CRANDOLIN, perhaps too much. Yet it is not a book measured for a market, and we need more of that. Tambour has, I hope, quite a few more coming. And I hope that the market finds her. The language she is evolving for telling the kinds of wild and biting stories she is interested in is part vernacular, part natural historian, full of wit and pulling its drama from an assumed sharing of empathy for those in the predicaments in which her characters find themselves." - Paul Voermans, "Technique of Awful: When Extremity Takes Us Past the Real", 10/22/2017, The New York Review of Science Fiction

"The Dog Who'd Been Dead"

in the winner of Best Anthology, World Fantasy Award 2017 DREAMING IN THE DARK edited by Jack Dann, published by PS Publishing

"The Godchildren"

in Walk on the Weird Side, edited by Joseph S. Pulver Sr., NecronomiCon

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Introduction by multi-international-award-winner Jeffrey Ford

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